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No. 91,960 WEDNESDAY, OCTÓBER 2, 1940
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SECOND ED
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
SUSTAINED ATTACKS
ON THE
THE BERLIN AREA Heavy Bombers Over Nazi Capital For Four Hours
Ammunition Train. Goes Up At Mannheim
STRONG FORCES OF R.A.F. BOMBERS CARRIED OUT SUSTAINED ATTACKS IN THE
NO INITIATIVE BY BERLIN AREA AGAIN ON MONDAY NIGHT,
ROOSEVELT ON JOHNSON ACT
At his press confer- ence yesterday. Pre- sident Roosevelt said: he expected to make recommendation
no.
for relaxation of the Johnson Act,' which ́ prohibits loans to gov-
AND OTHER FORCES OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT BOMBED A WIDE SERIES OF OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY AS WELL AS. THE'. INVASION PORTS, WHICH RECEIVED THEIR "USUAL | NIGHTLY BLASTING.
Our 'planes attacked oil refineries at Leuna and Hanover, an aircraft factory at Rottenburg, a munitions factory near Mag- deburg, goods yards and rail communications at Bremen, Ehrang, Osnabruck, Mannheim and Brussels, docks at Cuxhaven and Amster-
ernments which have dam, the ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais. Boulogne, and Le Havre and several enemy aerodromes,
defaulted on debts to the United States. Reuter.
SHANGHAI FLOODED
By Typhoon Downpour
In the course of these opera-i tions, an aircraft of the Bomber Command engaged and
down an enemy offeraft into the MID-HARBOUR
sea.
aircraft
Fleet
Aircraft of the Coastal Com- mand operating with the Air Arm attacked docks and petrol stores at Rotterdam and Blardingen, shipping and stores. at Ostend and set fire to an oil dump at Hamstede aerodrome. Five of our aircraft are missing.
Berlin Raids
TRANSFER
FROM FERRY
AUSTRALIAN AIR JAPANESE
ADVANCE IN INDO-CHINA
SQUADRONS
FOR SINGAPORE
Announcing that a number of Australian Air Force squadrons were going to Malaya, the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies, said in Melbourne yes- terday the units would not add to the pre- sent strength of the station but would re lióve RA.F. units needed elsewhere. Reuters
FAMILY OF FOUR BURNT IN FIRE
A Chinese family of four - husband, wife, and two children were admitted to the Kowloon Hospital early this morning suf: fering for serious burns received in a fire which broke out in their flat shortly after midnight.
The exceedingly rare, if not unprecedented, spec-
The injured resided on the top tacle of the mid-harbour floor of No. 11, Peking Road transfer of a crowded which was badly damaged by the (SPECIAL. TO “CHINA MAIL") Vice states that the west power ferry, resulted this morn- A typhoon passing near in previous raids, was clearly ing from an engine break-
Describing the sustained at- tacks the Air Ministry news ser-
station in Berlin, badly damaged
by flares and few
The Japanese forces in northern Indo-China have reached Caopang, ter minus of the new loop road through the - moun- tains into Indo-China which the Chinese made last November after the Japanese -- had cut the main road by the capture of Nanning, in south-cast China, it was stated in Chungking yesterday.
The Chinese forces in south- west. Kwangsi, are said to be pre- paring to meet a possible Japan esc advance from the French colony into Kwangsi along new highway.
the
The Chinese are intensifying the agitation for
Britain
to
reopen the Burma road. For the fourth day in succes- sion all Chinese newspapers
in Chungking yesterday printed lead- ing articles urging the reopening of the road-Reuter.
NOTHING TO REPORT There is nothing to report, said yesterday's Cairo communique. Reuter
fire.
Fire appliances from the Kow- loon Terminus Fire Station ex- tinguished the outbreak.
Shanghai brought, a con- minutes after the first stick of down, aboard the "Night HAVE AN H.B.-
tinuous downpour over bombs had fallen there was Star."
# and numerous The "Night Star" left Kowloon the city yesterday and large explosion
fires.
at 9 a.m. and engine trouble de- the northern port is suf-
Klingenborg power station veloped when she was about three was also heavily bombed, while minutes out. Other Ferries steer- fering the worst flood in
railways were hit and a factory ed close in and offered assistance, its history.
(Continued on 'Page 16) but it was not until the "Night, Star" had been drifting for from ed in their homes last-even-fifteen to twenty minutes that-it Ing. without means' of trans- was decided to transfer the pas-. portation to amusement apote, sengers. ·
Since early in the morning rain fell unceasingly and with the in- coming tide flooded districts, in the central and western preds.
and some were marooned in They were taken on board an- thair offices.
other, fairly full, ferry without in
The floods brought trams and buses, which started to function
The regular news broadenst cident and on to Hong Kong, normally. yesterday morning of Carroll Alcott, Shanghai's lead-, It is understood that the en- after the personnal of the ing radio announcer, was kept gineer aboard the "Night Star" French tramways had been onoff the air as the transformer repaired the defect shortly after- strike for a week, to a stand room of Station XMHA was wards.
still.
flooded.
Many, districts which had never · Old timers describe the food!
before been, flooded were under.
z a fout of water, and rickshas were as the first Jn many years.
doing a roaring trade, with many care: disabled! Havas.
Residents Marooned
Bars, Cafes Under Water
SIR ROBERTS HADFIELD PASSES
Sir Robert Hadfield, the world- famous 'metallurgist who invent ed manganese steel, dled In Eng- land yesterday ----Reuter..
POLISH SQUADRON PASSES 100
Bars, cafes and night Club were Reuter adds that sheets of rain flooded, and three feet or water riding a 60-kilometre an hour isolated the swanky French Club wind lashed Shanghai, at 3:6'éleck area. Residents in the fashion- yesterday afternoon,and contimi-able Parle Hotel, opposite the ed to heláte hour?! The lower | Race Course, were forced to make section of Rue de Consulat, main their way out precariously on One of the Polish squadrons at trect in the French Concession, narrowboards raised four feet present engaged in the Battle of
Inundated.
off the street. Bus and tram Britain has so far shot down 100 Mbut residents were maroon- I trame is virtually at a standstill German planes. Router.»
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